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Investigations on Selectivity of Gas‐Liquid Reactions in Capillaries
Author(s) -
Grühn Julia,
Burke Inga,
Neuhaus Nadine,
Kockmann Norbert
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
chemie ingenieur technik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.365
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1522-2640
pISSN - 0009-286X
DOI - 10.1002/cite.201900144
Subject(s) - cuvette , selectivity , chemistry , mass transfer , catalysis , work (physics) , chemical reaction , capillary action , chemical engineering , materials science , chromatography , organic chemistry , thermodynamics , composite material , physics , quantum mechanics , engineering
Biocatalysis offers a broad spectrum of possible ecological and economic advantages over conventional chemical catalysis processes, e.g., lower energy consumption and high enantio selectivity. The focus of this work is on gas‐liquid reactions. These are of great importance in the chemical and biochemical industry and subject of current research since they are often limited by mass transfer or show low selectivity. Different suitable biocatalytically gas‐liquid reaction systems were tested in capillary reactor designs in order to obtain information about the interaction between reaction and fluid mechanics. Furthermore, an optical measuring method was established. The experiments were performed in batch mode in a glass beaker with a flow cuvette for UV/Vis measurement of product concentration.